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6/7/2016 - It might sound odd or just plain loony to insist that ice cream doesn't melt, but one Cincinnati mom made the rather remarkable discovery that, yes, sometimes ice cream won't melt.
We'll explain.
She made her startling discovery after her son accidentally left his great value ice cream sandwich...

12/9/2015 - Walmart has come under fire in recent years for several things, mostly for being a piker when it comes to paying its employees, but also for sourcing almost all of its retail goods from overseas manufacturers and suppliers, most notably China. That latter fact really stings for those of us who remember...

12/3/2015 - Sometimes people and businesses do things that just make no sense whatsoever, or are otherwise designed to tick off as many people as possible. We're not sure what's at play in this case.
As reported by WorldNetDaily, a former U.S. Marine in full dress uniform, who for 15 years has taken up a position...

11/6/2015 - According to a 2015 Consumer Reports survey, 80 percent of Americans like to buy products that are made in the USA before they consider products made cheaply in other countries.
Walmart's Investing in American Jobs Program promised to spend $250 billion sourcing American-made products by 2013. Not...

7/18/2015 - At around 1:50 a.m. in the early morning hours of Sunday, June 28, a group of 40 to 50 teens entered a Macon, Georgia, Wal-Mart and proceeded to ransack store shelves and destroy merchandise in an effort, as the group's leader told an employee, to "see how much damage they could cause."
From all...

7/3/2015 - Just because Walmart figured out a way to sell consumer products for cheaper than your local mom and pop shop, effectively putting it out of business, doesn't mean that this multinational corporation is evil -- or so goes the claim by many a radical capitalist in defense of one of the world's most hated...

6/24/2015 - As part of the stunning collapse of thought diversity and the dominating demand of absolute belief system obedience in America, Walmart has announced that in addition to banning sales of the Confederate flag, it is also banning sales of red, white and blue colored crayons, colored pens and magic markers....

4/15/2015 - Wal-Mart has suddenly announced it is shuttering five stores from Florida to California for a six-month period due to what the company claims are "plumbing problems." Nobody except the ultra-gullible really believes the Wal-Mart cover story, however.
"The retail chain announced Monday that five stores...

2/5/2015 - On Monday the New York State Attorney General announced that testing found four major retailers sell supplements consisting of cheap fillers and allergenic compounds instead of the herbs they claim to contain. Walmart, Walgreens, Target, and GNC are taking full advantage of the lack of regulation in...

8/19/2014 - In the Michael Pollan sense, a bowl of fresh vegetables and whole grains that have been grown organically, without the use of industrial toxins, does not necessarily mean that it is "good food."
Writing in the Rim County Gazette's blog, Arun Gupta says that, today, you might be more likely to find...

6/28/2014 - In case you missed it, Walmart made global headlines earlier this year after meat sold in its Chinese market tested positive for the DNA of other animals. Meat labeled as "Five Spice" donkey meat apparently contained fox meat as well, sparking a massive investigation into the supply chain from which...

6/19/2014 - Some of the most popular American corporations are importing shrimp at super-cheap prices from Thailand, where migrant workers are in slavery, like in Nazi Germany, being tortured while they work for no pay 20 hours a day. How much shrimp is being imported that's processed by slaves, including child...

5/21/2014 - Speculation about how Walmart's planned expansion of its organics line will affect others in the healthy food business, including Whole Foods Market, is growing throughout the media. Some investors are now looking at a recent earnings miss by the grocery giant as a possible indicator that Whole Foods...

11/16/2013 - The ruthless hordes of food stamp recipients that went wild last month during a major glitch in the Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) program could end up getting cut off from the program forever, claim new reports. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal recently announced that everyone who participated in...

10/30/2013 - By now, millions of Americans have heard the story about how scores of people on food stamps attempted to rob a local Walmart blind when yet another government computer "glitch" wiped out the balances on their Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards, effectively giving them limitless purchasing ability.
Well,...

10/16/2013 - It is the ultimate example of sickening, pathetic political correctness. In the aftermath of the EBT cardholder ransacking of Walmart stores in Louisiana last Saturday, where the stores shelves were wiped clean in a food stamp "rampage" that cost the retailer untold thousands of dollars, "shoppers left...

9/22/2012 - Big-box retailer Walmart is once again in hot water after an on-site manager at one of its stores in Pembroke Pines, Florida called the police on a group of elementary school students that tried to sing "God Bless America" inside the store on September 11. After being booted from the store, the 75-member...

2/21/2012 - Most of the genetically-modified (GM) corn products forced on American consumers today are hidden in processed foods in the form of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), corn oil, corn starch, and various other corn-based additives. But soon to be available at a Walmart near you is Monsanto's Bt sweet corn,...

12/16/2011 - When 45-year-old Elizabeth Alisha Greta Halfmoon was finally arrested for trying to set up a methamphetamine lab inside a Tulsa, Okla., Walmart store, she told police that she did not have the money to actually buy the chemicals and mix them on her own property. But according to reports, it took roughly...

1/30/2011 - America's largest grocer, Walmart, recently announced that it will reformulate its "Great Value" store brand line of food products to include less sodium and sugar, and the removal of all remaining industrially-produced trans fats. The Washington D.C. event where the official announcement was made featured...

3/30/2008 - Most Americans drink conventional, non-organic milk from cows that have been treated with artificial growth hormone, but this more and more has been changing. WalMart is the latest in a string of large retailers to recognize consumer demand for milk from cows not treated with recombinant bovine growth...

1/11/2008 - If you live in a hot climate, or are planning a winter vacation in the sun, think twice before stocking up on flip-flops at Walmart. Simple, inexpensive ($2.44) shoes for the beach would seem to have mass appeal. Unfortunately, what they have caused is mass peeling because of an as yet unidentified...